Βig/Little Reveal

I am obsessed with my twin! Let's get that out there first. I'm glad our family is just a little bit bigger now. 

Each year, we center our big/little reveal around movies and my big picked Winnie the Pooh. 

That's my twin, Hailey. Isn't this picture so cute? My big and I made her shirt, tutu and the ears. And surprisingly, I have the tutorial for all of them. 

Ears:

Materials:

Cardstock 

Printer Paper

Colored Printer

Tape

Headbands

Glue

We found templates for all of the ears online (http://www.merrimentdesign.com/diy-winnie-the-pooh-ears-piglet-ears-tigger-ears.php). I cut them out of regular printer paper. 

I then cut out a sturdier piece of cardstock slightly smaller than the original cut out. I sandwiched it between the original cut out just to make it thicker so it could stand up better. 

We then just taped the paper cutouts to our headbands. It took quite a bit of tape and some creativity in order to get the ears to stay put but it all worked out! 

Tutu:

Materials:

Tulle

Elastic 

Scissors

Every tutorial I've ever seen suggests different amounts of tulle for the tutu, I grabbed one roll and it probably could've used another. It was very see-through but we figured it'd be okay anyways. So I guess it really just depends on how full you want the tutu to be.

 

When cutting your tulle understand that you'll have to fold it in half to tie it to your elastic. I did not make the tulle length exact so I just eyeballed a length I thought would be okay. 

This is just another picture to show the folded tulle. The folded tulle will be the length of your tutu! 

I know some people sew elastic in order to make tutus but as a girl who was lacking needle and a thread we just knotted ours. I then placed the elastic around the back of a chair to keep it straight so I could tie the tulle on it. This is what it looked like after a couple knots. 

This part was kind of hard to photograph but I tried! 

Keep the tulle folded in half and place it behind the elastic. The folded half of the tulle should be at the top so you can make a loop. In the above picture, my pointer finger is going through the loop. 

Grab the end of the tulle and pull it through the loop you made. Pull tight and that's it! It's just this simple knot all the way around. 

Our tutus were just sooooo cute! 

Frockets: 

Materials:

Shirt 

Fabric 

Fabric Glue

Iron 

Cardstock 

Ruler

We took some of our leftover cardstock and drew and cut out a 4x4" square. 

We then placed a line in the middle of the 

square on the bottom edge. We measured 1/2" up on each side and then drew a diagonal line to the center mark we had made. We then cut along the lines we had just made. 

This just allows the pocket to look more like a pocket and less like a square. 

We then got a piece of fabric that was slightly bigger than the square we cut out. We folded the fabric over the cardstock square and ironed the edges to get a crease in the fabric. 

After we got the strong crease in the fabric, we removed the paper square from the center. We placed fabric glue around the edges and carefully placed it onto the shirt. 

I think they came out fairly well! 

I think our outfits came out so great and the banner my big painted was perfect.